{"id":650,"date":"2007-10-19T12:45:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T19:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=650"},"modified":"2007-10-19T12:46:39","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T19:46:39","slug":"rejected-pbs-documentary-to-air-on-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=650","title":{"rendered":"Rejected PBS Documentary To Air On Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>&#8220;Islam vs. Islamists,&#8221;<\/em> episode of the PBS series <em>&#8220;America at a Crossroads&#8221;<\/em> is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,303381,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">scheduled to air<\/a> on The Fox News Network. PBS had declined to broadcast the segment because they deemed it <em>&#8220;alarmist&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;overreaching.&#8221;<\/em> That description must have made Fox&#8217;s mouth water. Seeing as how alarmist and overreaching is the stock in trade for Fox, they probably couldn&#8217;t have signed this deal fast enough.<\/p>\n<p>The Fox airing will bundle the documentary into a program that will also include interviews of the producers, giving them a platform from which to bash PBS as a bastion of liberal bias. Never mind that the president of the Corporation For Public Broadcasting, Patricia S. Harrison, is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=80\" target=\"_blank\">former chair<\/a> of the Republican National Committee. She was installed by the thoroughly corrupt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=321\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth Tomlinson<\/a>. The bashing of PBS has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,303381,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">already begun<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>This broadcast follows similar projects by Fox, airing or reporting on discredited or otherwise unreliable programs including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/printer_friendly_wires\/2006Sep07\/0,4675,APonTVPathto911,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Path to 9\/11<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,135627,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stolen Honor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7-4LVYGRzs4\" target=\"_blank\">Iran: Ticking Bomb<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,301480,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Cheney: No Retreat<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seems like Fox is ratcheting up their already prodigious propaganda machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Islam vs. Islamists,&#8221; episode of the PBS series &#8220;America at a Crossroads&#8221; is now scheduled to air on The Fox News Network. PBS had declined to broadcast the segment because they deemed it &#8220;alarmist&#8221; and &#8220;overreaching.&#8221; That description must have made Fox&#8217;s mouth water. Seeing as how alarmist and overreaching is the stock in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-propaganda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-au","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3879,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3879","url_meta":{"origin":650,"position":0},"title":"Censorship In America: Al-Jazeera And PBS","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/15\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"At a time when some of the most consequential news stories are emanating from the Middle East, America's cable companies are almost uniformly refusing to carry Al-Jazeera English, the news channel best equipped to cover events on the ground in their native territories. 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We can almost certainly expect Bill O'Reilly to air a post-broadcast rant on the dangers of the secular-progressive, far-left, presentation of committed left-wing loony, Moyers, because nothing is more terrifying\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5212,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5212","url_meta":{"origin":650,"position":4},"title":"Glenn Beck&#8217;s New Internet Venture Is Running Out Of Time","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/17\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Things must be getting pretty bad over at Glenn Beck's place since he lost his Fox News pulpit. On his radio program today, Beck had to resort to begging his listeners to stave off his demise. It adds a whole new meaning to the title of his recent book: Broke.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49","url_meta":{"origin":650,"position":5},"title":"The Corporation For Propaganda Broadcasting","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/10\/2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Can the propaganda machine get any more obvious? A former co-chairman of the Republican National Committee is the leading candidate to take over the agency that funds public broadcasting, sparking new concerns among broadcasters about conservative influence over National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service programming. 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